The Hidden Life of the Kennedys : The Elite Dynasty That Got Decimated (Pt. III)

The death of John F. Kennedy is the most obvious conspiracy of American history. The killing of his brother Robert F. Kennedy was carried out by a man who admitted to being a mind-controlled slave. “John John”, JFK’s insanely popular son died in a mysterious plane crash. Was the “Kennedy curse” actually a way of removing the Kennedys from the power?

This is the third and final part of the series of articles on the Kennedys. It is suggested that you read the first and second parts first.

As discussed in the second part of the series, John F. Kennedy’s short presidency was filled with confrontations with powerful groups including the Federal Reserve, the CIA, and big oil companies. Many of Kennedy’s moves appear to have been conscious efforts to bring power and influence back into the hands of a democratically elected government, out of the hands of the elite acting as a hidden government.

The Kennedy family, an American dynasty with rapidly growing wealth and power, had the potential and the popular support to stay in power in Washington for a long time. However, a long list of strange deaths and strange events continually impeded the Kennedys’ reign in America. The infamous “Kennedy curse” on America’s Royal family includes many mysterious assassinations and suspicious “accidents”, but the most infamous of them all is JFK’s assassination.

JFK Shot by a Patsy

John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas, at 12:30 pm on Friday, November 22, 1963. He was shot once in the throat, once in the upper back and once to the head. Lee Harvey Oswald, an employee of the Texas School Book Depository from which the shots were suspected to have been fired was arrested and charged with the murder. Oswald denied shooting anyone and claimed he was a patsy. Here’s a short video of him claiming he was a patsy:

After the JFK’s death, the Warren Commission was set up by Kennedy’s successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, to investigate the assassination. It is important to note that Johnson has continually opposed many of Kennedy’s key policies and that he quickly reversed many of them upon taking office. Additionally, one of the main figures of the Commission, Allen Dulles, was an ex-CIA chief who had been fired by JFK. Partly for these reasons, the credibility and the conclusions of the Warren Commission are still highly contested today.

The Commission concluded that JFK’s assassin was Lee Harvey Oswald, a lone gunman with psychological issues, who also happened to be a Communist.

It is apparent, however, that Oswald was moved by an overriding hostility to his environment. He does not appear to have been able to establish meaningful relationships with other people. He was perpetually discontented with the world around him. Long before the assassination he expressed his hatred for American society and acted in protest against it. Oswald’s search for what he conceived to be the perfect society was doomed from the start. He sought for himself a place in history—a role as the “great man” who would be recognized as having been in advance of his times. His commitment to Marxism and communism appears to have been another important factor in his motivation. He also had demonstrated a capacity to act decisively and without regard to the consequences when such action would further his aims of the moment. Out of these and the many other factors which may have molded the character of Lee Harvey Oswald there emerged a man capable of assassinating President Kennedy.
– Warren Commission Report, Chapter 7: Unanswered Questions

Oswald’s past is extremely murky and some aspects of it might be pure fabrication. In the years prior to the assassination, the Commission established he held several low-paying jobs, never lasting more than a few months. Nevertheless, he managed to defect from the United States to live in Russia where he learned Russian, before returning to America with a Russian wife. Back in America, Oswald reportedly espoused Marxist views while moving from job to job, and then grabbed a rifle and killed the President of the United States.

In the years following the Warren Commission, new information surfaced about Oswald, much of which points to him actually being a government agent. Several sources revealed that Oswald was in constant contact with FBI and CIA agents. It was even discovered that he operated a “pro-Communist” organization in the same building as government agent offices.

One of Oswald’s Fair Play for Cuba leaflets had the address “544 Camp Street” hand-stamped on it, apparently by Oswald himself. The address was in the “Newman Building” which, from October 1961 to February 1962, housed a militant anti-Castro group, the Cuban Revolutionary Council. Around the corner but located in the same building, with a different entrance, was the address 531 Lafayette Street—the address of “Guy Banister Associates”, a private detective agency run by former FBI agent Guy Banister. Banister’s office was involved in anti-Castro and private investigative activities in the New Orleans area (a CIA file indicated that in September 1960, the CIA had considered “using Guy Banister Associates for the collection of foreign intelligence, but ultimately decided against it”)
– 544 Camp Street and Related Events, House Select Committee on Assassinations – Appendix to Hearings, vol. 10, 13, pp. 123–4.

Oswald was also found to be in contact with Guy Banister’s associate, David Ferrie. According to Victor Marchetti, an Executive Assistant to the Deputy Director of the CIA, Ferrie also had connections to the CIA. Less than a week after the media reported that David Ferrie was being investigated for his links to Lee Harvey Oswald, he was found dead in his apartment under mysterious circumstances.

Like many other elite-controlled patsies, Oswald was “silenced” before he even went to trial. He was shot by a man with mob connections named Jack Ruby (short for Jacob Leon Rubenstein) on his way out from the court.

The legendary picture of Lee Harvey Oswald being shot by Jack Ruby. The event was televised live to millions of viewers.

Ruby’s first explanation for the murder was that Oswald’s death would spare “Mrs. Kennedy the discomfiture of coming back to trial.” However, as time passed, information surfaced hinting that Jack Ruby was actually an agent hired to “terminate” Lee Harvey Oswald because his job as a patsy was done. The House Select Committee, set up in 1976 to investigate the assassinations of both JFK and Martin Luther King, noted that several security breaches allowed Ruby to easily access and shoot Oswald.

The committee was troubled by the apparently unlocked doors along the stairway route and the removal of security guards from the area of the garage nearest the stairway shortly before the shooting … There is also evidence that the Dallas Police Department withheld relevant information from the Warren Commission concerning Ruby’s entry to the scene of the Oswald transfer.

In March 1965, a year after his conviction, Jack Ruby conducted a brief televised news conference in which he stated:

“Everything pertaining to what’s happening has never come to the surface. The world will never know the true facts of what occurred, my motives. The people who had so much to gain, and had such an ulterior motive for putting me in the position I’m in, will never let the true facts come above board to the world.”

When asked by a reporter, “Are these people in very high positions, Jack?”, he responded “Yes.”

According to an article in the London Sunday Times, shortly before he died, Ruby told psychiatrist Werner Teuter that the assassination was “an act of overthrowing the government” and that he knew “who had President Kennedy killed.” He added: “I am doomed. I do not want to die. But I am not insane. I was framed to kill Oswald.”

Ruby died from lung cancer shortly after these statements. According to Dallas Deputy Sheriff Al Maddox, Ruby had suspected that he was injected with cancer cells.

“Ruby told me, he said, ‘Well, they injected me for a cold.’ He said it was cancer cells. That’s what he told me, Ruby did. I said you don’t believe that bullshit. He said, ‘I damn sure do!’ [Then] one day when I started to leave, Ruby shook hands with me and I could feel a piece of paper in his palm… [In this note] he said it was a conspiracy and he said … if you will keep your eyes open and your mouth shut, you’re gonna learn a lot. And that was the last letter I ever got from him.”Marrs, Jim (1989). Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy

Although specific details surrounding JFK’s assassination and those involved in it will probably forever remain murky, by stepping back and contemplating the big picture, things can become a little clearer. After decades of new data and revelations, it is fairly obvious from the evidence available that JFK’s assassination was sponsored by high-level figures using patsies to commit the deeds. In the end, every single individual involved in the assassination died shortly after the events.

The true culprits of the assassination, the occult elite, those who run the country through a shadow government, were never even accused. However, several researchers have demonstrated that JFK’s death was more than a political assassination: It was an occult ritual meant to solidify the occult elite’s power, to traumatize the masses and mark a new era of American history.

The Killing of the King

When we look at JFK’s assassination through the eyes of occult secret societies – who attach enormous importance to ritual, symbolism, and numerology – powerful and undeniable facts stand out. According to occult researchers, JFK’s death was an extreme and wide-scale reenactment of one of Freemasonry’s most important mythology: The killing of Hiram Abiff.

A depiction of Hiram Abiff (sometimes amalgamated with Hiram King of Tyre) in his coffin surrounded by the three assassins.

In Freemasonry, initiations for the Third Degree involve a ritual drama reenactment of the killing of its most important figure, Hiram Abiff, by three “ruffians”. Like Hiram Abiff, JFK was shot three times – to the throat, to the chest, and to the head. During the initiation of the Third Degree candidates, Masons enact a ritual drama where the candidate plays the role of Hiram Abiff being killed by three ruffians. Here’s a transcript of the ritual.

“Our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff!” exclaims the ruffian; “he is the very man I wanted to see.” [Seizing the candidate by the throat at the same time, and jerking him about with violence.] “Give me the Master Mason’s word or I’ll take your life!” The conductor replies, “I cannot give it now, but if you will wait till the Grand Lodge assembles at Jerusalem, if you are found worthy, you shall then receive it, otherwise you cannot.” The ruffian then gives the candidate a blow with the twenty-four inch gauge across the throat, on which he fled to the west gate, where he was accosted by the second ruffian, Jubelo, with more violence, and on his refusal to comply with his request, he gave him a severe blow with the square across his breast, on which he attempted to make his escape at the east gate, where he was accosted by the third ruffian, Jubelum, with still more violence, and on refusing to comply with his request, the ruffian gave him a violent blow with the common gavel on the forehead, which brought him to the floor; on which one of them exclaimed, “What shall we do? We have killed our Grand Master, Hiram Abiff!”
– William Morgan, Illustrations of Masonry

The shooting took place in Dallas, at Dealey Plaza, just a few miles off of the 33rd Degree latitude. This geographical fact is primordial in Masonic symbolism as the 33rd Degree is the highest degree attainable in Scottish Rite Freemasonry. It is most likely for this reason that the nearby river is named the Trinity River.

A 3D view of Dealey Plaza. Its entire design is based on the number 3.

Considered to be the “birthplace of Dallas”, Dealey Plaza features an obelisk (a Masonic monument) topped by the torch of Illumination.

While many believe this obelisk was built in memory of JFK, it is actually a Masonic monument built in 1940.The plaque at the bottom mentions that Dealey Plaza is the site of Dallas’ first “Fraternal Lodge” which is a Masonic Lodge.

The site of JFK’s killing was therefore extremely significant in Masonic symbolism. It was located at the 33rd latitude, near the Trinity River, in Dealey Plaza – a site adorned with a Masonic obelisk. (Noteworthy fact: The first nuclear bomb exploded exactly on the 33rd latitude.) The location was named Trinity Site … and a Masonic obelisk now identifies the area.

The Trinity Site Obelisk is located at the 33rd latitude.

The Killing of the King rite was accomplished at another Trinity site located approximately ten miles south of the 33rd degree of north parallel latitude between the Trinity River and the Triple Underpass at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Dealey Plaza was the site of the first masonic temple in Dallas. In this spot, which had been known during the 19th century cowboy era as “Bloody Elm Street,” the world leader who had become known as the “King of Camelot,” President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot to death.

A widely publicized image which has become perhaps the key symbol of the enigma of the Kennedy hoodwink, emerged immediately in the wake of the assassination: a photograph of three “tramps” in official custody, who were later unexplainably released and never identified, though speculation about who they really were has reached fever pitch among investigators.

This photograph is a ritual accompaniment of the Black mass that was the ceremonial immolation of a king, the unmistakable calling card of masonic murder, the appearance of Jubela, Jubelo and Jubelum, the three “unworthy craftsmen” of Temple burlesque, “that will not be blamed for nothing.” This ritual symbolism is necessary for the accomplishment of what James Shelby Downard and I described in the first edition of Apocalypse Culture, as the alchemical intention of the killing of the ‘King of Camelot’:

“…the ultimate purpose of that assassination was not political or economic but sorcerous: for the control of the dreaming mind and the marshaling of its forces is the omnipotent force in this entire scenario of lies, cruelty and degradation. Something died in the American people on Nov. 22, 1963—call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the transformation of human beings which is the authentic reason and motive for the Kennedy murder…”

The seemingly random and senseless slaughter of a President, the week before Thanksgiving, by having his head blown apart in those now infamous Zapruder film frames, is the signpost of humanity’s entry into what David Cronenberg in his Videodrome Rosicrucian cinematic manifesto termed, “Savage New Times.”

The search for the three assassins has become a trip up and down Tim Finnegan’s ladder, a ladder containing “one false step after another.” It is a masonic riddle several magnitudes above the pedestrian, CIA-Mafia-Anti-Castro-Castro-KGB-Texas rightwing etc. etc. political “solutions” pushed by the various books and movies which sometimes only serve to confuse and demoralize us all the more.
– Michael Hoffman III, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

It is important to note that some of the most important heads of the Warren Commission, which concluded that JFK’s death was the result of lone gunman Oswald, were high-level Freemasons.

It is also interesting to note that Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Earl Warren, was himself a 33rd degree Freemason, who was Grand Master of California from 1935 to 1936. He was also Potentate of Aahmes Shrine, and an officer in two Scottish Rite Lodges in Oakland, California. He was also a member of the Bohemian Club, and gave several lakeside speeches at Bohemian Grove, which is located north of San Francisco, in the small wooded town Monte Rio, California. His Warren Commission was filled with Freemasons. Gerald R. Ford, J. Edgar Hoover, and Allen Dulles were all 33rd degree Freemasons as well. Abraham Zapruder himself, was a 32nd degree Freemason, and after the assassination, he was raised to the 33rd degree, for his part in the assassination plan. Other high-level Freemasons directly involved in the murder of JFK included Lyndon Baines Johnson and George Bush Sr., both of whom were 33rd degree Freemasons, as well as Bush Sr. belonging to Yale University’s Skull and Bones occult society.
– Kentroversy Papers, “Dealey Plaza: Esoteric Freemasonic Symbolism in the Death of JFK”

The tombstone of JFK is laid next to the Eternal Flame – a symbol of the occult elite and its torch of Illumination.

Destroying the Legacy

After JFK’s death, there were still Kennedy family members who had the potential to keep America’s Royal Family in power. The first one was JFK’s brother, Robert F. Kennedy. He had the name, the vision, the experience, and the momentum to easily become U.S. President. However, his ascent to power was cut even shorter than his brother’s.

Robert F. Kennedy

RFK with Martin Luther King.

Although he lived in the shadow of his brother, Robert F. Kennedy (also known as Bobby or RFK) was an important part of JFK’s Presidency. As the 64th U.S. Attorney General, RFK was the President’s closest adviser and exercised widespread authority over every cabinet department. The Associated Press even dubbed him “Washington’s #2 Man”.

A few years after JFK’s assassination, Bobby Kennedy entered the race to become the Presidential candidate of the Democratic party. The themes and policies promoted by RFK were not only a continuation of his brother’s work, they went a step further. RFK stood on a platform of racial and economic justice, non-aggression in foreign policy, decentralization of power and social improvement. He was particularly popular with Black and Native American communities and often spoke of the “disaffected”, the impoverished and the excluded.

On June 5, 1968, just after winning the California Primary, which would secure his ticket to becoming a Presidential candidate, RFK was shot three times by Sirhan Sirhan, a 24-year-old Palestinian man.

Mugshot of Sirhan Sirhan

Lawrence Teeter, attorney for convicted assassin Sirhan Sirhan, stated that Sirhan was under the influence of hypnosis when he fired his weapon at Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Teeter even mentioned that Sirhan was a product of the CIA’s MKULTRA program and that mind control techniques were used to control Sirhan. Sirhan’s attorney further added that Sirhan had been hypno-programmed to be a diversion for the real assassin and that Sirhan would be easily blamed for the assassination because he is an Arab. According to court papers :

Sirhan “was an involuntary participant in the crimes being committed because he was subjected to sophisticated hypno programming and memory implantation techniques which rendered him unable to consciously control his thoughts and actions at the time the crimes were being committed.”

Sirhan, now 67 years old, is still behind bars and remains one of the most obvious MK patsies used by the occult elite to carry out its agenda.

John F. Kennedy, Jr.

John F. Kennedy Jr.’s salute to his deceased father is an iconic image that will forever remain engraved in American history.

Americans fell in love with John F. Kennedy Jr. (also known as John-John), when he was a toddler photographed playing under his father’s desk. As a grown man, John-John was a full-fledged celebrity, with the kind of popularity that was only rivaled by the British Royal family. In a short period of time, he singled-handledly rekindled the Kennedy-mania of the 1960s.

During the 1980s and 90s, John-John was an American celebrity and sex symbol.

Ambitious, well-spoken, handsome, and comfortable with the spotlight, John-John was identified by many as the man who would bring the Kennedys back to the White House. Several times, Kennedy was asked publicly if he was interested in following in his father’s footsteps and choosing politics as a career; he replied that he was declining to do so for the time being, but would not rule it out for the future. In 1999, Kennedy was seen as a frontrunner for the New York Senate seat vacated by Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the state’s senior senator.

Shortly after this political breakthrough, John-John died in a small plane crash, along with his wife. Many observers stated that the events surrounding the crash were suspect and that there were indications of a cover-up. Here’s a 2001 news article describing how important footage and photographs of the plane crash mysteriously “vanished”:

JFK, Jr Air Crash Site Video Footage Vanishes

Video and photographic evidence from the site of the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy jnr has either been destroyed or mysteriously gone missing as a family court battle looms over the accident.

The US Navy has conceded it destroyed up to eight hours of video footage taken by divers recovering the bodies of Mr Kennedy, his wife, Carolyn Bessette, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, in the waters off the island of Marthas Vineyard in July 1999.

At the same time, a large quantity of photographs has apparently been lost between the navy and the organisation empowered to investigate aircraft accidents, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

The developments have given rise to claims that the Kennedy family used its political influence to have the images destroyed before they could go to a court and become publicly available.

The family already endures frequent rebroadcasting of amateur footage of the assassination of Mr Kennedy’s father, president John F. Kennedy, in a 1963 shooting during a motorcade in Dallas.

Family members did not want to suffer the same pain over John jnr’s death by being subjected to constant replays of graphic footage of the recovery operation.

Navy divers filled four 120-minute VHS cassettes with footage during the operation.

The film included their discovery of Mr Kennedy’s body, wedged from the waist down between the seat and instrument panel of the plane and his arms waving back and forth in the current. It also showed the bodies of Ms Carolyn Bessette and her sister lying crushed and partially obscured behind Mr Kennedy.

A freedom of information application by a United States newspaper seeking access to the film forced the navy to concede at the weekend that it had burned the tapes “out of respect for the family”.

However, the NTSB said it had told the navy it did not need the footage because it had been able to recover almost all the wreckage and determine a cause of the accident from that.

The Bessette family’s lawyers believe the videos would have been crucial to their pending court actions seeking damages from Mr Kennedy’s estate.

The Bessette sisters’ mother, Ms Ann Freeman, and father, Mr William Bessette, are preparing separate suits based on the official finding that the deaths were caused by pilot error on Mr Kennedy’s part.

With his tragic death, which stunned and traumatized the masses yet again, hopes for a second-generation Kennedy President evaporated.

The Kennedy Curse

Below is a list of the main events considered to be part of the “Kennedy Curse”. While it is unlikely that every single one of these events was a result of a conspiracy against the family, it is difficult to ignore the strong pattern of synchronicity, aka “meaningful coincidences”, associated with the Kennedys.

1941—Rosemary Kennedy was often believed to have been mentally challenged. Some sources have claimed she was suffering from mental illness, such as depression and schizophrenia. Because of her increasingly violent and severe mood swings, her father, Joe, Sr., arranged in secret for her to undergo a lobotomy. The lobotomy instead further impaired her cognitive abilities, and as a result, Rosemary remained institutionalized until her death in 2005.

August 12, 1944—Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. died when his plane exploded over East Suffolk, England, as part of Project Anvil.

May 13, 1948—Kathleen Cavendish, Marchioness of Hartington, died in a plane crash in France.

August 23, 1956—Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy gave birth to a stillborn daughter, Arabella.(Although she is buried at Arlington National Cemetery next to her parents with a marker reading “Daughter”, her parents had intended to name her Arabella.)

August 9, 1963—Patrick Bouvier Kennedy died two days after his premature birth.

November 22, 1963—U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the crime, but was shot and killed by Jack Ruby two days later before a trial could take place. The FBI and the Warren Commission officially concluded that Oswald was the lone assassin. However, the United States House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) concluded that those investigations were seriously flawed and that Kennedy was probably assassinated as the result of a conspiracy.

June 19, 1964—U.S. Senator Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy was involved in a plane crash in which one of his aides and the pilot were killed. He was pulled from the wreckage by fellow senator Birch E. Bayh II and spent weeks in a hospital recovering from a broken back, a punctured lung, broken ribs, and internal bleeding.

June 5, 1968—U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated by Sirhan Bishara Sirhan in Los Angeles immediately following his victory in the California Democratic presidential primary. Sirhan was convicted of Kennedy’s murder and is serving a life sentence at the Richard J. Donovan Correctional Facility.

July 18, 1969—In the Chappaquiddick incident, Ted Kennedy accidentally drove his car off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, which fatally trapped his passenger, Mary Jo Kopechne, inside. In his July 25 televised statement, Kennedy stated that on the night of the incident he wondered “whether some awful curse did actually hang over all the Kennedys.”

August 13, 1973—Joseph P. Kennedy II was the driver of a car which crashed and left his passenger, Pam Kelley, paralyzed.

April 25, 1984—David Anthony Kennedy died of a cocaine and Demerol overdose in a Palm Beach, Florida hotel room.

December 31, 1997—Michael LeMoyne Kennedy died in a skiing accident in Aspen, Colorado. Kennedy was suspected of statutory rape after having a three-year affair with a 14-year-old baby sitter.

July 16, 1999—John F. Kennedy, Jr. died when the Piper Saratoga light aircraft he was piloting crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard due to pilot error. His wife and sister-in-law were also killed.

– Wikipedia, “Kennedy Curse”

In Conclusion

This series on the Kennedys retraced the dynasty’s rise to power, its political direction, its immense popularity, and its violent downfall. Revisiting the rise and fall of this powerful family also reveals many key characteristics of the occult elite, its modus operandi, and the extent of its power. By learning the truth about the Kennedys, we can see how the occult elite uses patsies and mind-controlled assassins to carry out murders; controls and influences law enforcement, politicians, and federal commissions; and manipulates media to confuse the masses. And we can see how the occult elite continues to operate in the shadows, as it has for centuries.

Why did the occult elite destroy the Kennedy family? Were they outsiders in the closed circle of elite bloodlines? Was their ascent to power an accident that was not supposed to happen? Did the Kennedys turn against their puppetmasters and try to bring their own style of governing?

Whatever the case may be, the true antagonism between the Kennedy family and those who decimated them is happening on a higher level. Despite their flaws, there was something about the Kennedys that brought light, hope, and warmth to the masses. In this sense, they represented the exact opposite of the occult elite who develop darkness, despair, and cruelty. For this reason, the Kennedys – along with so many others who have brought light and hope to the masses – were killed.

Today, all that remains of the Kennedy dynasty is the Eternal Flame of JFK’s grave, a source of light that actually represents the darkness of those in power.

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Bogomil Jones

Note the fact that the Beatles arrived on American shores within 90 days of JFK's assassination. The country had been emotionally devastated , particularly younger Americans who saw in their younger president a vigor and hope not represented in leadership prior. The conditions were set for the devolution of American youth which happened rapidly. The fresh faced lads quickly became moody brooding new age druggies and so did the American youth. JFK's death was THE turning point in America becoming an infected and affected society.

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Entrance US. A

And isn't that the perfect set-up for mind control? Except this time on a national scale: Traumatize them and then while they're still reeling, implant the hypnotic suggestion

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anon

And to bring this up to date… Isn't the black hooded, British accented beheader in the (faked) decapitation video now on the MSM "news" cycle being referred to as "The Beatle"?